Biggest firearm pet peeve(s)?

[.38 Special]

When I was 12 years old my idiot stepfather took me to a rifle range with a friend of his. The friend had a new Weatherby Mark V with a high-grade walnut stock. While the fellow was in the bathroom, stepfather set me up on the bench with the forend resting on the top of a steel ammunition box. I probably weighed 90 pounds at the time so when I torched off that first .300 Weatherby round the rifle and I both just about fell off the back of bench. That's when stepfather realized he should have padded the top of the ammunition box. I never did hear what the rifle's owner thought about those scratches and gouges, but I do know that he never invited us back to the range with him.

 

[Arkansas Paul]

I'm pretty easy to get along with so my pet peeves are mainly safety concerns. Know the 4 rules and follow them.
Also, I hate it when someone thinks it's funny to start off someone new to shooting with an extremely heavy recoiling gun. If your goal is to introduce them to something they will hopefully enjoy, that's a piss poor way to do it.
Also don't like it when people think that everything they own is a step above anything someone else owns, but that's a personal trait more than a gun gripe. Goes the same for trucks, BBQ grills/smokers, knives etc.

 

[NCSUPackman]

Gun show table sellers with not one firearm marked with a price.

That can be a huge inconvenience. However, it's reply to the question "What are you asking on.../What do you want for..." that is almost always:
"Make me an offer!" that is my pet peeve.
To me, that translates to "I'm hoping you don't know what it's worth and will offer stupid money!"
What usually seems to happen is people start offering low and the dealer starts getting agitated, yet still won't put out price tags or give a starting price.

 

[Robbins290]

Besides the obvious safety peeves.

The DIE HARD fanboys. I am friends with a few. WE GET IT, you like your gun, you really like your gun. Because mine is not a (insert brand here), its junk or cheaply made or has a poor trigger. And most of the time i will out shoot them with the crappy gun. I am a fanboy of all guns. All of them.

 

[Justin]

I don’t know why it bothers me because it is not my firearm nor any of my business; I cringe when a firearm is dragged or raked across a concrete shooting bench - like fingernails on a chalkboard.

At an IPSC match years ago, there was a stage with an unloaded start, gun staged on the top of a metal table.

Dude I know makes ready, stages his new STI on the table.

The RO makes a comment about how its a bummer having to put such a nice gun on such a crummy surface.

With a grin, he reaches down and rubs the pistol over the surface.

 

[Howland937]

That can be a huge inconvenience. However, it's reply to the question "What are you asking on.../What do you want for..." that is almost always:
"Make me an offer!" that is my pet peeve.
To me, that translates to "I'm hoping you don't know what it's worth and will offer stupid money!"
What usually seems to happen is people start offering low and the dealer starts getting agitated, yet still won't put out price tags or give a starting price.

I knew a guy that never put prices on anything. If he actually did, nobody would bother stopping to look. When he'd tell me to make an offer, I'd always tell him my offer would be what I'd like to pay, not what I thought he'd like to get. I did learn a lot from him though.
I definitely despise the overly macho mentality. Look at you funny for wearing hearing protection, don't need to shoot off a rest cause "you can't hunt with one", and think it's funny when someone new gets caught off guard by recoil.

 

[Chuck R.]

At an IPSC match years ago, there was a stage with an unloaded start, gun staged on the top of a metal table.

Dude I know makes ready, stages his new STI on the table.

The RO makes a comment about how its a bummer having to put such a nice gun on such a crummy surface.

With a grin, he reaches down and rubs the pistol over the surface.

I saw similar once at a BPCR silhouette match. I had just taken delivery of a new Ballard High-Wall with exhibition grade English walnut, hand checkering, hand rubbed finish etc. A little over $4k all together. I was being extra careful with it. One of the guy I routinely shot with made the "it's a tool comment" to which I replied that I "liked nice looking tools" and he then proceeded to say it's the function, not the looks that count and to prove his point, he dragged his Remington Hepburn replica off the line by the barrel through the gravel, probably a $3K rifle.

I don't have a match gun that doesn't have scars, that's just the nature of the game, but I'd rather not hasten the wear.

 

[jmohme]

I have one all encompassing pet peeve and that is the term "Pet Peeve".
It just annoys the crap out of me every time someone says it!

Now for gun related, I don't care if you call a magazine a clip, or act like you know all there is to know about firearms when you don't know squat. I just care that you act responsibly and safely when you have your fully semi automatic revolving single shot machine musket in your hands.